Hubert Sauper is a documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

maker best known for the highly controversial Darwin's Nightmare

Darwin's Nightmare

Darwin's Nightmare is a 2004 French-Belgian-Austrian documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper, dealing with the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. It premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, and was nominated for the 2006...

(2004) which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Sauper has lived in the UK, Italy

Italy

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, and the USA and now lives in France

France

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. He studied film directing in universities in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 and France

France

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. He teaches film classes in Europe and the USA.

He acted in several short films and two feature length films: In The Circle Of The Iris, directed by Peter Patzak

Peter Patzak

Peter Patzak is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 60 films since 1973. His film Kassbach – Ein Porträt was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival and his film Wahnfried was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected...

, (with Philippe Léotard

Philippe Léotard

Philippe Léotard was a French actor, poet, and singer....

), and Blue Distance, directed by Peter Schreiner.

His two latest documentaries have received twelve International Film Prizes.

Filmography

• On the Road With Emil (1993, Documentary)
• So I Sleepwalk In Broad Daylight (1994, fiction)
• Lomographer's Moscow (1995, Documentary)
• Kisangani Diary / Loin du Rwanda (Far From Rwanda) (1998, Documentary)
• Alone With Our Stories (2000, Documentary)
• Darwin's Nightmare
  Darwin's Nightmare
  Darwin's Nightmare is a 2004 French-Belgian-Austrian documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper, dealing with the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. It premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, and was nominated for the 2006...
  
  (2004, Documentary)

External links

• Review of "Darwin's Nightmare" (in French)
• Hubert Sauper, "Giving Voice to Those Who Are Not Heard" (Video interview from Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
  Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary
  Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary is a film and website about documentary filmmaking, directed by Pepita Ferrari. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, Capturing Reality explores the creative process of over 30 leading documentary filmmakers, combining interviews with excerpts from...
  
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